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Schools affected by teacher strike

Schools affected by the teachers’ strike on Thursday, April 24 in the Black Country and Staffordshire

Teachers’ strike to close schools

Scores of schools around the Black Country and Staffordshire are set to close on Thursday when teachers stage their first national strike in 21 years.

Prizes to send school meals packing

Pupils in Staffordshire could be given rewards for eating school meals in an attempt to cut the numbers bringing in packed lunches.

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Early start for £160m school rebuild

A massive £160 million building project for schools in the Wyre Forest district could be started three years earlier than scheduled.

School offers cash for exam results

Cash handouts of up to £180 are being offered to the best performing pupils at a Black Country secondary school to encourage them to do well in their GCSE exams.

Protest as superschool at risk

Scores of angry parents are expected at an emergency public meeting called after it emerged that plans to transform a Black County secondary school into a ‘‘superschool’’ could be scrapped.

One in five missed school place

One in five children in the West Midlands failed to get a place at their preferred secondary school this year, official figures today reveal.

Table success for city school

Moreton School in Wolverhampton has been ranked as one of the most improved in the country in today’s Key Stage Three league tables.

Six pupils in race for every place

Up to six pupils are chasing each place at an Oldbury primary school which has been revealed as one of the most over subscribed in the country.

Super-college merger move

Dramatic new proposals could see three Staffordshire colleges merge to create one super-college.

Glowing report for impressive school

Government inspectors have given a Staffordshire school the thumbs up in their latest inspection. Great Wyrley Performing Arts High School recently hosted Ofsted inspectors who said the school had an “impressive” performance.

Jobless staff could cost council £500k

More than 20 teachers could be left jobless after the closure of a doomed Black Country school – costing tax-payers almost £500,000 in redundancy payments.

Schools plan ‘is huge challenge’

Wolverhampton has a “big job” on its hands in raising standards in education, the boss of a multi-billion pound programme admitted today.

Pledge on schools shake-up

Parents, teachers and children in Dudley have been promised a “fair, frank and vigorous” consultation into £200 million plans for a shake-up of secondary schools in the borough.

Caves – it’s a mystery for Toyah

There isn’t much that shocks singer and presenter Toyah Willcox.

School tees off with £6k award

Budding young golfers at an West Midland school are now able to tee off on their very own golf course. Children at Cooper and Jordan Primary in Aldridge have created their own nine hole course after being awarded £6,000 from the lottery.

£8.5m plan for learning village

A new “learning village” costing £8.5 million is planned for pupils with special needs in Dudley which the council say will be the first of its kind in the borough.

Community unites for school

Schoolchildren who feared their Christmas fair would have to be cancelled after arsonists torched all of the prizes and bric-a-brac are smiling again after the community united to donate replacements.

School survey welcomed

The Diocese of Lichfield has welcomed a new survey which reveals that a majority of non-Christians who were surveyed do not see church schools as divisive.

Tories urge schools mobile ban

Schools should be ordered to outlaw mobile phones from classrooms, the Conservatives said today. Headteachers in the West Midlands are currently allowed to make up their own policy on pupils carrying mobile phones.

‘Sick’ school gets clean bill

Experts have now given a clean bill of health to a revamped Black Country school which was at at the centre of a “sick building” storm.

Fears over school bid

Plans to build a school in a village near Kidderminster could be rejected – a move which it is feared will sound the “death knell” for the area.

School has own golf course

A Black Country primary school has built its own golf course.

Attack on ‘hostile’ charity chiefs

The head of Wolverhampton Grammar School has accused the Charity Commission of being hostile and “sabre-rattling” towards independent schools with charitable status.

School is highly sought after

Thomas Telford School is one of the most sought after in the country, new figures show today. The school, in Telford, takes a large number of pupils from Wolverhampton each year.

Talks held on £6m school

Brainstorming has been taking place in a Staffordshire village to generate ideas of how the new school should look.

Academy to plug skills gap

One of Cannock’s leading engineering companies is plugging the skills gap by setting up its own £700,000 training academy to develop the engineers of the future.